Lightning-arrester.



E. W. VOGBL.

LIGHTNING ARRESTBR. I APPLICATION FILED MAY 5, 1906.

Patented Nov. 16, 1.909

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UNilTl'iD STATEEE EUGENE W. VOGEL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

LIGH'TENING-ABRESTER.

943,226). firevifivefion Lettm Patented Nov, l8, *ltfillm Application filed May 5, 1906. Serial No. 815,386.

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To all whom it may concern: base in any suitable manner as for instance Be it known that I, EUGENE W. VOGEL, a by bolts t) extending through the base citizen of the United States, residing at Chiand upwardly throng the posts. The heads cago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have of the bolts are preferably located in recesses so invented a certain new and useful lniprovel in the under surface of the basemerit in Lightning-Arresters, and declare the i In order to prevent the posts from rotattollowing to be a full, clear, and exact tleing relatively to the base, dowel pins such scription of the same, such as will enable indicated at may, it desired, be formed on others skilled in the art. to which it perthe lower ends 01'? the posts andreceivcd in tains to make and use the same, reference sockets in the plate.

l he ends'ot the bolts which extend above the posts are provided with suitable means My invention relates to lightning arr-esters l uniting to them the ends oi the leads confor protecting electrical translating instrustituting the electrical circuih E" E indibeing had to the accompanying drawings,

l l 'nients. \cate the leads winch are electrically con- 1 designate the same parts in the several tiglt is customary to provide electrical conductors for telephones, telegraphs, signals, etc. with devices for preventing the passage of lightning t0 the translating instrun'ients which would be destroyed thereby, such denectcd by means oi? nuts l) to the respectivc bolts 0' j. i designates a coil of wire, the ends of l t l "*d t tl which are c ec L]Ltli.y UlllLL 0 ie poss \B B in any suitable manner as by being vices serving to divert the lightning t'roni bent around the bolts C C and clamped belhe. conductor to the ground before it reaches l tween the bottom nut on each bolt and the the instruments. top of the corresponding post.

The primary object.- of my invention is to g designates a coil of wire, the ends of so provide a lightning arre'ster which will be which are electrically united, loosely located simple in construction, inexpensive in inanuwithin the conducting coil F, the convolut'acture, and ellicient in use. tions of the coil g intersecting the planes of The embodiment of my invention herein "the convolutions oi the coil A tube G disclosed may be generally described as coniinade oil? any suitable insulatingmaterial, as prising a supporting base of insulating inafor instance glass, surrmuuls the coil 51 and terial, posts spaced apart and supported g is located with the coil 1*. ds ot' toe upon the base, a coil of wire interposed betube G are supported in so tuned in tween and electrically connected to the posts, the posts B 15*. Lining c" g 5 are in an insulating tube supported between the tel-posed between the ends ct the tube ad posts and around which the coil issupportcd, the sockets in the posts such linings are a coil of wire within the insulating tube the i made of resilient mater' and serve t convolutions of which intersect the planes of the convolutions of the conducting coil,and a grounding conducting plate located adi ll indicates a plate made of conducting jacent the conducting coil. l niatcrial and supported upon the base in! My invention will be more fully described uiodiately below the coil l Any suitable with reference to the accompanying drawing means may be provided for securing the in which,- plate to the base, as for instance screws h.

Figure l is a? plan view; Fig. 2 a sectional extending through the base into scrcwto i view on line 2-2 Fig. 1; Fig. 3 a transverse threaded holes in the pl: 'c. The ends section on line Fig. 92; Fig. l a sectional the plate terminate ad view on line ll Fig. 2; Fig. a plan view and prefers of the grounding plate. r,-

The same reference chai t rs are used to i vent the tube from be as, broken thrt contact with the posts.

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Reference letter is tlesis"-urtes a supporting 1 1' filllllBtl of any insulating material such v n for instance as slate. l5" 3 designate posts Zc' indicates a binding screw for Litlfi't llC made of conducting material mounted upon the end of the lead L it) the bracket 4 the base A. The posts may be secured to the l The operation of my invention is as fol lows: The device is located at any desired point and may be supported by screws extending through holes a 1n the base plate.

The base plate is preferably loosely connected with its support as the arrester 18 less] passes from the circuit through the coil 1* it will be choked or retarded so that it will pass from the convolutions of the coil F to the plate H and thence to the ground. The

current may also be grounded by passing directly from the posts B B to the plate H without passing through the coil F in which event the teeth on the ends of the plate H facilitate the passage of the lightning from the posts to the plate.

The strain to which the arrester is subjected by the passage of lightning therethrough would result in the breaking of the insulating tube G were it not for the cushioning effect of the end caps g g interposed between its ends and the posts.

From the foregoing description it will be observed that I have invented an improved lightning arrester which though simple and inexpensive in manufacture is durable and efficient in use.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a lightning arrester, the combination with a base of insulating material, a pair'of posts of conducting material supported on said base, a conducting coil of wire interposed between and secured at its ends to said posts, and a ground conductor supported on said base in proximity to said coil and having its ends projecting into proximity to said posts.

2. In a lightningarrester, a base of insulating material, a pair of posts of conduct ing material on said base, a conducting coil of wire interposed between said posts, a pair of bolts passing through said base and securing the ends of the coil to the posts and the posts to the base, and a ground conductor supported on said base in proximity to said coil and having its ends projecting into proximity to said post.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE WV. VOGEL. Witnesses GEO. L. VVILKINSON, C. A, MULLEN. 

